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Washington and its partners’ lead therefore needs shoring up, lest semiconductors go the way of telecommunication equipment, solar cells, electric vehicles, critical minerals, and other industries in which China’s overwhelming share gives it dangerous influence.
—Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Perovskite solar cells that are seriously impressive.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
She was honored for designing materials for applications in solar cells, batteries, and medical imaging.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Antimony is used in solar cells and increasingly in defense technology like infrared missiles and nuclear weapons and as a hardening agent for bullets and tanks.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1955, in the meaning defined above
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“Solar cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20cell. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
solar cell
noun
: a photoelectric cell that converts sunlight into electrical energy and is used as a power source
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